In Australia, the small town of Clermont, in central Queensland, is enjoying a new lease of life thanks to rising gold prices.
As I see it, large-scale threats to ginseng, including mining and climate change, are bigger concerns than small-scale harvesting by negligent diggers. I believe many diggers can be valuable ...
But diggers are not, and never have been, the only reason for small ginseng populations. Starting in the late 1800s, forests across virtually all of the eastern United States were logged for ...